Nigel Lockyer named Fermilab Director

Penn Adjunct Professor of Physics Nigel Lockyer has been named the next Director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.  A Fellow of the American Physical Society and 2006 winner of the APS Panofsky Prize, Nigel is the Director of Canada's TRIUMF laboratory for nuclear and particle physics and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia.  In early September he will assume the role of Fermilab Director where he will develop strategy for the nation's premier laboratory for particle physics and shepherd a new generation of experiments.